HB228 is scheduled for it’s THIRD hearing this morning in the Senate Oversight Committee at 9:30am! Your immediate action is needed to amend it into a SOLID Stand-Your-Ground law!
As you know, we’ve been working hard to FIX HB228 into a full-orbed Stand-Your-Ground law.
So many of you have been contacting the members of the Oversight Committee, and we can’t thank you enough.
But today we’re asking you to do it again — we can’t let up now!
Currently, HB228 lacks civil and criminal immunity for gun owners, which are hallmarks of “Stand-Your-Ground” law.
And right now, HB228 doesn’t have “threatened use of force,” either, which would allow gun owners to draw their firearm and deescalate violent, deadly situations.
Remember the Florida gas station shooting several months ago where a man was violently pushed to the ground, who then shot his attacker as his attacker stepped backwards?
“Threatened use of force” would allow that guy on the ground to draw his firearm and make sure that his attacker didn’t attack again, deescalating that violent situation safely.
HB228 currently removes the “duty to retreat” and restores the burden of proof back to disprove a self-defense claim back to the prosecution, but gun owners in other states with similar laws have STILL sat in jail for defending themselves because adequate restrictions on anti-gun big-city prosecutors are not in place.
That’s why we’re trying to FIX HB228!
Please contact the members of the Senate Oversight Committee right now to tell them to vote YES on the Jordan Amendment to HB228!
This amendment, being brought forward by Senator Kris Jordan, would strengthen HB228 and make Ohio a true Stand-Your-Ground state, like Florida, Iowa and many more.
This is your chance to play a part in one of the most important gun law reform efforts in Ohio history!
Please contact the members of the committee and tell them that gun owners support the Jordan Amendment to HB228:
Senator William P. Coley, II
(614) 466-8072
Senator Joe Uecker
(614) 466-8082
Senator Matt Huffman
(614) 466-7584
Senator Kevin Bacon
(614) 466-8064
Senator Kris Jordan
(614) 466-8086
Senator Frank LaRose
(614) 466-4823
Senator Bob Peterson
(614) 466-8156
Don’t wait – act NOW!
For Freedom,
Chris Dorr, Director
Ohio Gun Owners
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subject: Please vote YES on the Jordan Amendendment to HB228!
message: Dear Members of the Ohio Senate Government Oversight Committee,
I’m writing you today as a law-abiding gun owner to ask you to address a weakness in House Bill 228, which is currently in the Senate Government Oversight Committee for consideration.
Right now, HB228 does several things right like removing the “duty to retreat” and restoring the burden of proof to disprove a self-defense claim back to the prosecution.
But also right now, HB228 lacks a substantial enactment clause like Florida and Wyoming recently passed, and it lacks immunity from agenda-driven prosecutors without probable cause, which are hallmarks of “Stand-Your-Ground” law.
Additionally, HB228 doesn’t have “threatened use of force,” either, which would allow gun owners to draw their firearm and deescalate violent, deadly situations – thereby saving lives.
Consider this scenario: Under “threatened use of force,” a grandma and grandkids getting approached in a parking lot by a criminal brandishing a tire iron would be able to pull her firearm, back the would-be attacker, retreat with her grandkids, and safely go home.
In other words, it would allow her to deescalate a violent situation safely, protect her grandkids, save the life of the would-be criminal, and do so all without opening herself up to an assault with a deadly weapon charge.
The amendment to HB228 by Senator Kris Jordan would correct these oversights in HB228 and make it a comprehensive and much-needed reform of Ohio’s self-defense laws!
This amendment was crafted by and has the full support of Ohio Gun Owners, Ohioans for Concealed Carry and Ohio Carry, and a large majority of the membership of Buckeye Firearms Association, too.
Politically, with members of the Ohio Senate already under blistering attack by gun-control organizations, our governor and anti-gun politicians for considering a “Stand-Your-Ground” bill, NOW is the time to pass a full-orbed version!
If we don’t correct our self-defense laws now, while the arrows are already incoming, we risk being right back in this same situation in the next general assembly.
Please consider this request to amend HB228 with the amendment by Senator Kris Jordan, and help restore Ohio’s status to one of America’s leading states when it comes to defending and protecting our Second Amendment rights.
Sincerely,
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